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Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: sandy on July 28, 2009, 10:17:58 pm

Title: Is it worth it????
Post by: sandy on July 28, 2009, 10:17:58 pm
I have 2 apple trees (still babbies) a pear tree, 2 Blue berry shrubs and several strawberry plants yet get loads and loads of free fruit when I take the dogs out...Bilberries, Raspberries, Strawberries and Brambles, my freezer still has some from last year....I may just have flowers!!!!
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: Farmer on July 28, 2009, 11:00:50 pm
God...just think of all the smoothies you could make!

Farmer :yum:
 :farmer:
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: Rosemary on July 29, 2009, 09:13:13 am
CSSA must get on with the fruit press idea!
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: sandy on July 29, 2009, 09:17:56 am
Good idea but what I meant was I only get a tiny bit of fruit from my garden and loads and loads from the wild!!!! Hope when my fruit trees get bigger they produce enough for the press!!
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on July 29, 2009, 11:13:18 am
that because the wild fruit has adapted to it's surroundings(been a plant in the area for a long time), yours have yet to be astablished , fruit tree love well rooted manure (you need to start collecting you chicken poo then once it is read feed it to the fruit bushes / tree

Linz
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: sandy on July 29, 2009, 11:34:56 am
I clean out the Duck pond about once a week and water the fruit trees etc with the water I pump out, not sure about the poo, I will have a go at getting it out of the stones ;) Hope you are wll fluffy and bump :D
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on July 29, 2009, 11:38:59 am
yeah all well,

Just getting annoyed with members of my extended family as you know !!.

Am on the count down of 8 weeks to go now and getting totally fed up with it all and people attitudes
(sorry highjack the thread a wee bit)
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: sandy on July 29, 2009, 11:53:22 am
WHat do you mean? We are your family :) Look after yourself, leave them to squabble, turn off your ears if you can!!!
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: doganjo on July 29, 2009, 01:42:02 pm
Where do you get all this fruit, Sandy, I'll have to come out with you sometime  - I've looked everywhere and I can't find any - mind you I have to keep the ten eyes in the back of my head trained on my dogs when I'm out with them so only have the front ones to look, and even then I often need them for the dogs too! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: sandy on July 29, 2009, 02:00:21 pm
Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, Lidi, Audi, Morrisons..... ;)No, Dunfirmlin train line and the disused road, Gartarry Woods, Tulligarth Mill, Peppermill Dam, Devilla Forest, Kennet Woods etc etc, we also got loads of wild garlic from Black Devon Woods in Clackmannan, a lot of other places have fruit etc but as Ben is a bit young, I don't trust him either so only go with my OH now.
Title: Re: Is it worth it????
Post by: doganjo on July 29, 2009, 03:13:59 pm
OK, so no dogs and I'll come with you and Steve next time - I can't take any of mine to those places you've mentioned except the Dam as they'd be on the roads - you've seen the speed they go at lol  ;D ;D ;D